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Originally posted by Kkamjong
This is why no one takes Billboard seriously anymore and only care about the sales info.
How does a woman win Woman of the Year (in music) based on achievements that had nothing to do with...music? 
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HOW THE WOTY WAS WON 2015
FEB. 22
The star’s critically lauded medley to honor The Sound of Music’s 50th anniversary drew a standing ovation at the 87th Academy Awards and featured numbers “Do Re Mi” and “Edelweiss.”
APRIL 26
Alongside partner-in-jazz Tony Bennett,
she delighted the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival crowd with cuts from the Great American Songbook off their 2014 duets album, Cheek to Cheek.
JUNE 19
“I feel extremely unaccomplished as a songwriter,” the humbled star said while accepting the Contemporary Icon Award at the 46th annual
Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction & Awards Gala.
SEPT. 18
She released the video for “Til It Happens to You,” a song co-written with Grammy Award-winning songwriter Diane Warren as a sexual assault PSA for the 2015 documentary The Hunting Ground.
OCT. 2
The hitmaker became
the first artist in history to sell more than 7 million downloads of two tracks — “Just Dance” (featuring Colby O’Donis) and “Poker Face,” off her acclaimed 2008 debut, The Fame.
OCT. 19
Received the
Young Artist Award at the National Arts Awards (her “most meaningful” honor) before a crowd including Jeff Koons, Klaus Biesenbach and fellow honoree Sophia Loren.
And they didn't even mention The Grammy she won! Not everyone has that.
